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Iâm monogamous and have been dating my boyfriend who identifies as straight for a little over a year. He told me that he had a strict âno contact with exesâ policy when we first met. Due to some sketchy behavior, lies, and gaslighting on his partâregarding contacts with his ex-girlfriends, open dating profiles, and multiple private Instagram accountsâI checked his phone, and my suspicions were confirmed. He didn't cheat but there were some inappropriate messages that he apologized for. He blocked all his exes and is on the straight and narrow now.
At the time I checked his phone, I also found strange messages to one of his male friends. My BF sent this guy nudes and videos of him having sex with other women. (This was before we met.) There were also...
I donât care if my boyfriend was bisexual, but I don't want to be lied to. And I really donât want to be the crazy girlfriend, but my boyfriend had framed photos of this particular guy in his house that I made him remove. I also asked him to cut off all contact with this man. This is all fresh in my mind because we ran into this guy the other night. They kept telling each other how good they both looked and my BF was visibly nervous the whole time. Is my boyfriend telling me the truth? Do straight guys who donât have any sexual interest in their friends send them dick pics? My BF is in his mid-40s. He knows Iâm bi. The âno contact with exesâ rule was his idea, not mine, and I think this guy counts as an ex and should remain blocked. Do you agree?
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Your boyfriend made the ruleâno contact with exes (not even eye contact on the subway?)âbut at some point, after the lying and gaslighting, you became the enforcer: digging through his phone, ordering him to block his exes, take down framed photos, etc.
He was apparently willing to overlook your snooping, SMELLTEST, seeing as youâre still together. And you were apparently willing to overlook the mountain of incriminating evidence you found on his phone. While you honored his âno contact with exesâ rule from the start, he was swapping texts, sexts, and photos with his exes the whole time, lurking on dating apps, and maintaining multiple Instagram accounts. You concluded he hadnât cheated on youâhe just broke his own stupid ruleâbut in my experience, SMELLTEST, ârules for thee, not for meâ types are rarely very good at honoring monogamous commitments over the long term. Iâm not saying heâs cheated on you already, but if not getting cheated on ever is important to you⌠he might not be the guy.
As for his claim that swapping dick pics and compliments are things straight guys doâŚ
I havenât had a chance to snoop through Harry Stylesâ phone, SMELLTEST, so I canât definitively say that no straight guy has ever sent another straight guy his dick pics. (Or spat on another straight guy at a film premiere.) And seeing as lots of straight men enjoy playing âgay chickenâ these days (and posting the videos to TikTok), it stands to reason that some straight guys may be swapping dick pics and ironic messages about how badly they want each otherâs cocks for the lols. But I donât think that kind of behavior is common among straight guys, particularly straight guys in their 40s.
My hunch is that your guy had and enjoyed a few MMF threesomes with this guy before you met, and it was in that contextâwith a woman in the room to heterosexualize any incidental homosexual contactâthat he came to appreciate his friendâs cock. Seeing as you dug through his phone long enough to find all the dating apps heâs on, all the messages heâd been swapping with ex-girlfriends, and all those fake Instagram accounts, SMELLTEST, if he was bisexual you probably wouldâve found messages heâd sent to other men and his Grindr, Scruff, and Sniffies accounts too.
If this friend is the only guy your boyfriend has ever messed around with, SMELLTEST, if that one guyâs cock is the only cock heâs ever wanted to push past his tonsils, your boyfriend is free to round himself down to straight. I also donât think having messed around with this one dude makes them âexesâ in the romantic/dating sense of the term, and I think you should let your boyfriend put his picture back up.
Finally, SMELLTEST, what the two of you are doingâthis guy with his no-contact rules about exes and his lies, you with your snooping and demands to take down photosâsounds so exhausting. Is this a relationship or a police state? If he can manage to remain monogamous and gets a charge out of swapping dick pics with an old friend, what harm is there in that? Why not let him have that? And if the guy was hot⌠why not let both of them have you?
P.S. I hope those videos you BF sent his friend of him having sex with other women were taken with the consent of those other women and that he had their permission to share those videos with his friend.
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